1

I'm trying to run an application sbopkg that uses a curses interface in an ssh session running under GNU Screen (Tmux also has the same behavior). If I run ssh directly from the terminal emulator (either iTerm2 or Terminal on OS X), then I don't see any blank spaces.

Why am I seeing these blank spaces? Is there a way to configure screen or ssh to avoid this?

enter image description here

Greg Nisbet
  • 3,076

1 Answers1

2

You're using a terminal description that says that the terminal supports back color erase (bce), but it does not actually do this.

GNU screen is configurable (defbce for instance), but apparently tmux is not (see for instance Support background color erase (bce) [was: Vim copy & paste trailing space issue] #109)

Further reading:

Thomas Dickey
  • 76,765